Web Version of Android Market updated, showing Larger number of App Installs

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Notice the bright green box above? It’s showing the installs count of Google Maps and it’s not just “>250,000”. Well, we don’t when did Google updated its android market and no word on its extent and other features too, but the web version is now showing greater number of installs (i.e. downloads) of the applications under the “ABOUT THIS APP” column in the right most side of the app’s page.

Earlier — and still on our Android phone (SGS) at the least — Android market would just show >250,000 installs as the maximum count. But we just saw some apps showing much larger Installs counts running into millions. The maximum we could find was 10,000,000 – 50,000,000 — for Angry Birds, Google maps, GMail, etc. We’ve also spotted following slabs: